Artist: Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)
Title: Portrait (The Daughters of Durand-Ruel)
Medium: Hand Pulled Copper plate etching , printed in bistre ink, on cream laid paper after the original oil on canvas by Auguste Marie Lauzet (1865 – 1898) .
Edition: Limited to only 50 examples.
Dimensions: Plate size 4 7/8 x 6 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 7/8 x 16 1/8 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A double portrait of the two daughters of Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1921), art dealer for the Impressionists and son of Jean-Marie-Fortuné Durand and his wife Marie Ruel, owners of a famous art gallery in Paris. Jeanne, the younger girl with her hat off, and Marie-Therese are posed on a garden bench dressed in light-colored summer frocks.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir; (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”